Diaspidiotus cecconii (Leonardi)

Hemiberlesia cecconii Leonardi, 1908: 188. Quadraspidiotus cecconii Balachowsky, 1950.

Iran localities.

Azarbaijan -e Garbi, Esfahan, Fars, Hamadan, Kerman, Kordestan.

Host plants.

Amaranthaceae: Noaea mucronata; Rosaceae: Cotoneaster vulgaris .

References.

Ben-Dov et al. (2013), Borchsenius (1966), Kaussari (1955), Kaussari and Farahbakhsh (1968), Kozár (1998), Kozár et al. (1996), Moghaddam (2004), Moghaddam and Tavakoli (2010) and Seghatoleslami (1977).

Notes.

This is the first record of Diaspidiotus cocconii from the plant family Rosaceae .